Traveling the Trace

Whenever you get the desire to travel from Nashville, Tenn. to Natchez, Miss. (or anywhere in between) the way the postriders did nearly two hundred years ago this is the guide book for you. Traveling the Trace is "a fascinating book for any Tennessee or Southern history buff, or people just wanting to take a leisurely drive down the Natchez Trace," says the Nashville Banner. The Natchez Trace Parkway, visited by over 13 million people a year, is scattered with communities full of history and hidden pleasures. Exploring the parkway and sights within thirty miles of either side of the Natchez Trace, the book provides directions to such sights as the homes of Helen Keller and W. C. Handy, Mrs. Rosenbaum's Frank Lloyd Wright home, a Victorian bed and breakfast, and an ancient canyon with tiny creatures that glow in the dark.